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From: kurt@photon.tamu.edu (Kurt Freiberger)
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Subject: Re: Disk Manager and MSDOS 5.0
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Date: 25 Jun 91 14:24:16 GMT
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In article <9057@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes:
|> In article esaholm@polaris.utu.fi (Esa Holmberg) writes:
|> >
|> >	With DOS 4 (and prior), I have to use Disk Manager to get full
|> >	use of my hard disc, as it has more cylinders than DOS 4 can
|> >	understand. Has the 1024 cylinder limit finally been removed,
|> >	or do I still have to stick with Disk Manager.. ?-)
|> >
|> DOS 5 allows large disks -- but that increased capacity must still
|> remain with the first 1024 cylinders.  I believe this is a problem
|> with the BIOS, i.e. it's on a chip.

I have the AMI BIOS on my beast and to my surprise, there's an entry for my
Maxtor 1224 track drive!  But DOS 4.xx and DRDOS 5.00 both couldn't
hack the 1024 limit.  <sigh> Guess I'll have to try again with DOS 5.0 to 
be sure....

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Kurt Freiberger, wb5bbw	  kurt@cs.tamu.edu   409/847-8706
Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University  DoD #264
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